© BBC BBC confirms League Of Gentlemen comeback
Three episodes for later this year
23/08/2017 … The League Of Gentlemen are to make their comeback with three special TV episodes later this year.
Wed 23 August 2017
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Michael Stranney at Chortle's Fast Fringe
23/08/2017 … Michael Stranney took part in Chortle’s Fast Fringe as his naive and peculiar alter-ego Daniel Duffy.
© C4/Mark Johnson 'There were times when we were utterly sick of each other'
David Mitchell on his relationship with Robert Webb
23/08/2017 … David Mitchell says he’s done some of his best work with Robert Webb when they ‘couldn’t stand the sight of each other’.
C4 orders new gaming comedy
Mixing live action and animation
23/08/2017 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new comedy about gaming that mixing live action and animation, and which will be overseen by Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.
Channel 4 hungry for more Friday Night Dinner
23/08/2017 … Channel 4 has ordered a fifth series of Friday Night Dinner.
England's finest
Finalists announced for English Comedian of the Year
23/08/2017 … The finalists have been named for the 2017 English Comedian of the Year.
Tue 22 August 2017
Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
22/08/2017 … Tiernan Douieb is as game as any comic, and he makes a decent fist of getting a mid-afternoon audience in the difficult Waverley Ba going against the odds.
© BBC How comedians come up with their Fringe shows
22/08/2017 … The Edinburgh Fringe is a vibrant melting pot of talent, a festival of comedy, theatre and art, and the root cause of many a comedian’s filing for bankruptcy…